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LXDE-Qt Preview | LXDE Blog
LXDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dissatisfied with GTK 3,[10] Hong Jen Yee experimented with Qt in early 2013[11] and released the first version of a Qt-based PCManFM on 26 March 2013.[10] He clarified, though, that this means no departure from GTK in LXDE, saying “The Gtk+ and Qt versions will coexist”. He later ported LXDE’s Xrandr front-end to Qt.[12]
On 3 July 2013 Hong Jen Yee announced a Qt port of the full LXDE suite.[13] And on 21 July 2013, Razor-qt and LXDE announced that they are merging the two projects.[14][15][16] The merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt was renamed LXQt,[17] and the first release, version 0.7.0, was made available on 7 May 2014.[1]
LXDE-Qt Preview | LXDE Blog
OK, back to what most user will concern, the resource usage.To be honest, migrating to Qt will cause mild elevation of memory usage compared to the old Gtk+ 2 version. Don’t jump to the conclusion too soon. Migrating to gtk+ 3 also causes similar increase of resource usage.
Since gtk+ 2 is no longer supported by its developer and is now being deprecated, porting to Qt is not a bad idea at the moment.
Besides, the slightly higher memory usage is still acceptable for most of the existing old machines. The real resource usage may differ a lot among different Linux distros. For example, Ubuntu-based distros running LXDE tends to use more memory than ArchLinux-based ones. So more testing and real benchmarks are needed before making a conclusion on this.
